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Innovation

Are Innovators Born or Made?

March 13, 2018

The question of whether people are born with innovative talent or can develop it has knock-on effects to issues ranging from productivity growth in the macroeconomy to innovators’ wages to the gender gap in entrepreneurship.

NSF Fiscal Year 2019 budget to advance innovation, infrastructure

Patent reform and innovation

February 23, 2018

At issue is a new procedure, established by the 2011 America Invents Act (AIA). It provides an mechanism for the Patent Office to double check its work and weed out its mistakes, revoking patents that never should never have been granted.

U.S. Patent System Falls to 12th Place in Chamber Global IP Index for 2018

February 13, 2018

This year the United States edged out the United Kingdom by a mere .01 points on the Chamber scale. The U.S. position was helped by improved scores relating to copyrights and trademarks, but was dragged down as the U.S.

US takes one step forward, two steps back on innovation

February 12, 2018

Although there are some positive outcomes illustrating the power of the patent system, there have also been some significant missteps in the other direction. By moving one step forward, but two steps back, the United States is losing ground as an innovative leader.

How talented kids from low-income families become America's 'Lost Einsteins'

January 29, 2018

To maximize innovation and growth, all of our brightest youth should have the opportunity to become inventors. But a study we recently conducted, jointly with Neviana Petkova of the U.S. Treasury, paints a very different picture.

America is outsourcing innovation, and we need to bring it back

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